Snapshots
Some snapshots of the impressions India has left on me... Its your own country. You belong. And yet sometimes, people feel very different and you miss the place you call home. There is something funny about the government installing a reverse-osmosis filter at Mysore Palace for visitors. While its very nice of them, doesn't it amount to an admission that government supplied water is non-potable? Dunno, weird. Jaipur has banned plastic bags completely, without much ado. And they are pretty nonchalant about it. Other cities charge for plastic bags, thus reducing their usage. Things get done here without much back-patting and ado. If a film star has an affair with a lady co-star, and violently beats up his wife over it, the producers association bans the lady co-star for the next ten years. Speechless. Bangalore, Pune is full of youngsters. You can easily feel old. Jaipur is the opposite. Ads actually make sense. Even kiddo gets them. Thousand rupees is mere pocket change. Bollywood a